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Advantages and opportunities

A logical step for many community organisations wishing to increase or diversify their activities, access increased funding or resources, increase their impact or reach or offer complementary services, is to team up with other community organisations in their area.

Successful partnership working can provide many benefits for those involved such as:

  • pooling of resources
  • reduced overheads
  • best practice
  • greater support and advice
  • greater joint funding
  • efficiency savings
  • ability to tender jointly for contracts

This section gives links to information on the advantages and opportunities available to community organisations working, or wishing to work in partnership.

Links

Bassac

  - 'Sharing Without Merging' is a report on “clustering” in the voluntary and community sector which can include sharing premises, human resources functions etc – download available

Business Community Connections

  - a good fit - how to ensure that both companies and charitable organisations are likely to receive greater benefit from a partnership and ensure that there is some alignment between them